Questions tagged [business-language]
Terminology, etiquette, and conventions used when doing business in English.
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Term for Successful Sale after Demoing Product
I believe there is a business term for such an event, but I can't recall what it is.
An example would be a vacuum salesman showing a prospective buyer how a vacuum works, and the buyer ends up ...
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Is there an intuitive noun for this type of business transaction
In the domain I am working in (business accounting), I'm struggling to find a term to explain an event which takes place.
Supposing we have two sides to this business accounting we want to represent:
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A word to describe an industry where personal growth depends on insider knowledge
I am trying to come up with a word that describes an industry where your growth as a professional depends on learning from others, not from books or research.
Example: It's difficult for young people ...
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What is the difference between screen shot and screenshot, where do we use screen shot and screenshot
What is the difference between screen shot and screenshot, where do we use screen shot and screenshot. Are they used interchangeably?
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best - fit vs best fit
I'm having a bit of a disagreement about the use of the words "best fit" vs "best - fit" (note the extra spaces suggested).
The sentence is "...and I enjoy analysing human behaviour and drivers to ...
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Review manager/reviews manager
I work for a transcription company where my job is to both review files for accuracy and oversee and coordinate with other people who also will review files. Is it more accurate to say that I am the ...
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Pursue a profession or pursue a career?
Is "pursuing" a valid way to ask for a persons work situation?
When I googled it, I found "pursue a career" but I want to ask about his situation rather than his work goal.
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Are you ...
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What do you call the "one who requests" and the "one who offers"?
In some sort of an exchange (maybe of services, maybe of items), there are those who seek and then request, and those who offer. What would be pleasent nouns to use for these roles? "requester"/"...
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Is there a word for technical debt that is centered around at-rest configuration data?
So sometimes my team runs into technical debt centered around persistent data. A quick example is if we create four options KNOWING that we will want to reduce them to two options later. This would ...
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Human Asset Development or Human Assets Development
Human Assets Development
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Human Asset Development
The second one has no "s" at the end of asset. Which is more natural, and is there a rule for this (for example, use a singular noun (...
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Thanking and Addressing multiple people including the reader in an email
Let's say I am writing a business email, starting by thanking a bunch of people who helped me in the past project.
Those people include:
Aaron: Person of importance who helped me (in a high position, ...
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Term for Market Expansion (growing the Entire Market Size) via Signifincant Price Reduction
I am looking for the business term for market expansion (growing the entire market size) via significant price reduction.
For example, ~20 years ago, enterprise grade CRM used to be exclusively in the ...
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A period of at least thirty (30) continuous days from the date
One of the conditions in a contract is mentioning:
The hydro power plants to be built to have been completed, commissioned, in operation and successfully generating power for a period of at least ...
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Correct use of the terms "posting" and "booking" in accounting
When translating phrases for a commercial software system, I encountered a few uncertainties with accounting terms (my native language, as well as the system's source language, is German.)
I know that ...
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responsible person, person in charge or designated person?
I am looking for a term that is commonly used in business reports to indicate the responsible person or person in charge of certain activities(for example, person who performed product inspection to ...
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Term for actively opting out of a requirement to see if it is truly required
There was a term or phrase I encountered years ago which encompassed the idea of not doing an action to see if there is any blowback. If no blowback occurs then it is considered an efficiency ...
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Is there a word or phrase for a third-party contractor of a third-party entity?
Consider the following:
I represent Company A
Company A has a contractor that they offload work to, called Company B
Company B has a contractor that they offload Company A's work to, called Company C
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What is the proper way to use commas when addressing two or more people by placing their names at the start of the sentence?
I frequently need to address multiple people in writing at work. This is usually done in a way that makes it convenient to at them all at once.
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@dale, @emily, please take a look at this and, if ...
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Is there a formal way of stating "to be appointed"?
I am currently writing the annual report for a charity. There are trustees which will be appointed, but not at the date of the report.
Is there a formal way of stating Trustee "to be appointed&...
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After Interview Reply
I was interviewed 3 days ago which went well and It was my last interview with respective department Head for the position. I didn't receive any reply after the interview so I contacted the HR guy ...
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Part-Time and Freelance working schedules: set, or on-demand
I'm trying to find a way to use fairly formal/professional language to describe two different models for work. I have a rough idea of the two models, but I am currently only able to use informal ...
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What does "legal jumping jacks" mean in the marketing context?
I came across the expression "legal jumping jacks" in a sentence from a sales pitch text which is explaining why that company is good to buy a service from.
The sentence is like as below:
We(...
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Business proposal
A business proposal is when a company offers a service to a client.
What is it called when a client instead writes an offer to various companies using the same or similar format of a business ...
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Professional Engineering-related Business Letter
For one of my Engineering Courses, I had to write a professional Business Letter to inform my hypothetical employer of my analysis about two alternatives, and which one of them is better.
For this ...
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Capitalization of "diploma business informatics"
For an application I need to translate my resume. What is the right way spelling of my degree:
2010-2015 Diploma business informatics
2010-2015 Diploma Business Informatics
2010-2015 Diploma of ...
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how to describe a person in office live by `Information Asymmetry`
if a person work in a office at a firm.
He reports his manager the information best for him, sometimes lies to his manager.
He tells his subordinate staff the information best for him, sometimes lies ...
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Term for "final accounting for an employee"?
What do you call the process undertaken when an employee has concluded their employment with some employer, of what amounts of money the employee is due, and what they need to return or reimburse, on ...
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What is the business term to use when describing take a business to smaller markets
Like a business used to operate in big cities/markets, now the mgmt team made a decision - avoid the saturation and competition - to take the business to smaller places where there are new ...
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Is it correct to say "from conceptualization to realisation"?
I am writing a business email to a client and I want to tell him that we have developed many softwares from first step (from an idea) to last step (a real product). Is it correct to write it like ...
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What is the correct word usage of "spends a lot" in this context?
I am in the process of writing a business plan and want to write that the organization's target audience spends a lot. However, I have to mention this a lot and I can not figure out how to write this ...
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Punctuation in salutation and closing in an email
I usually use commas in salutation and closing phrase in emails like this below
Dear XXX,
Best regards,
I also see emails and letter of many people use commas. However,in an English for Work ...
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Grammatically incorrect or just awkward?
Is this grammatically incorrect or just clunky?
If you put time into it you will be rewarded as you master all the different techniques.
EDIT (copied from a reply below):
I’ll add a bit of ...
